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radioteacher
Posted 2011-03-15 2:32 PM (#81403)
Subject: Post pictures of your first rides


Visionary

Posts: 3006
San Antonio, TX		OK....well as you can see by the photos below it is amazing I have made it this far without a major skin graft. This is my first ride...a 1982 Kawasaki CSR 650 that I paid cash for in 1983.

Open course...Amateur Rider! I did attempt and lived to tell the tale. Miracles such as this never cease to amaze me.

Picture from Rockport Texas, 1985

Ride Safe...note if you gear up like the idiot in the following photos you have missed the mark.



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radioteacher
Posted 2011-03-15 2:34 PM (#81404 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Visionary

Posts: 3006
San Antonio, TX		Here is an earlier photo of me riding. My ride home today will make me as happy as the boy pictured below.

Ride Safe....Git..um..up....move along. Partner.

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pollolittle
Posted 2011-03-15 3:18 PM (#81411 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Visionary

Posts: 2027
Brighton, TN		That don't look nothing like the fella on youtube. Ok, Ok, I'll be the first to ask, what did you do with that guy? Inquiring minds want to know. I know I do! That right there's funny I don't care who ya are! Throw us a bone and throw out one of those early chicks from the 80's so Songfan can make a poster. I can't wait!!!!!
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radioteacher
Posted 2011-03-15 4:09 PM (#81418 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Visionary

Posts: 3006
San Antonio, TX		Senor Pollito, <----Spanish term for small male chicken.

Those pictures were from over a half a lifetime ago. I have seen a lot of hair turn gray and/or fall out plus I have not missed too many meals since then.

I will look around for an 80's girl picture....Hey here is one now!



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team5150
Posted 2011-03-15 5:41 PM (#81423 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Cruiser

Posts: 104
Corona, CA		It hard to look like a bad a$$ when you're wearing those tighty whitey shorty shorts!

Do you have a sock stuffed in them ?

Did you sing "Moon Shadow ?"
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rf43mn
Posted 2011-03-15 6:40 PM (#81429 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Cruiser

Posts: 71
Willmar, MN		looks like one that I had...not my first by ant means...but I had an 81 750 LTD with a Quicksilver fairing with Silver Sound. Hey...I thought it was cool!
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Rollin'
Posted 2011-03-15 10:45 PM (#81453 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 825
, WI

 

My first "custom" bike.

My first new bike. A 1973 Ducati 750GT. I was 19.

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sanqhar
Posted 2011-03-16 11:36 AM (#81481 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Puddle Jumper

Posts: 14
UK		Not quite my first bike, but the first picture of me on a motor bike.


Tommy

It's a WW2 Corgi, parachutist's bike.

tom
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Cap'n Nemo
Posted 2011-03-16 11:48 AM (#81482 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Visionary

Posts: 1359
New Bohemia, Va		wow. I was a paratrooper in recent years and had to know a lot of history. I don't recall this little scoots but it looks like it is time for googling. I do recall Corgi though.

Okay, I'm done, now I know why, they're British, cool beans.

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dan camarco
Posted 2011-03-16 1:23 PM (#81489 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Cruiser

Posts: 206
Lumber Bridge, NC United States		I don't have pics of my younger year bikes street and dirt but here are some of my moto guzzi



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marcparnes
Posted 2011-03-16 1:51 PM (#81490 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 802

My first real motorcycle bought in 1964, a '60 Puch 175 "Twingle" 2 cylinder two stroke, one combustion chamber, one plug. Imported by Sears On a ride in New Zealand in 2000 we happened by a used bike dealer in Christchurch. Unbelievably he had this one on the floor. I almost bought it except that the shipping would have cost more than the bike. Check out the other bikes he had. It was like a vintage used bike lot.

My first bike

The rest of my bikes are here.



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Tarpits99
Posted 2011-03-16 2:04 PM (#81494 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 742
North Orange County CA		A photo a few things I miss from 1974.

Youth
Hair
60's vintage Les Paul Jr.
1966 BMW R50 - my 1st "real" street bike.
Horsehide Biker jacket
An old friend

Not necessarily in that order. Youth and hair I can blame on nature; the rest is on me.




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Mikeebiker
Posted 2011-04-11 1:15 PM (#83752 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Cruiser

Posts: 101
Springfield, TN		My first ride was on the back of my Dad's '48 Pan-Head. My first bike was a "Dream"... Honda Dream that is... a 160! Wow.... I'm the stud on the right. These matching bikes were once part of a fleet operated by the Fargo, ND Elks Lodge. Must have been a sight to see a bunch of old farts riding those beauties in a parade!!!



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Trekwolf164
Posted 2011-04-12 1:36 PM (#83829 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 965
New York State		http://www.funtransport.com/ft_images/Mini%20Enduro.jpg
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iluvink
Posted 2011-04-12 2:25 PM (#83838 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Tourer

Posts: 411
Dallas, Texas

This isn't exactly mine...but this was the model...


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Tarpits99
Posted 2011-04-12 2:32 PM (#83840 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 742
North Orange County CA		Navigating a suburban landscape on a early 70's SL350 that would occasionally park itself in our living room.

I've since learned the error of my ways in regards to both helmet use and parking.



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Mikeebiker
Posted 2011-04-12 3:20 PM (#83853 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Cruiser

Posts: 101
Springfield, TN		SL 350? Here's a pic of my brother's with mine hidden in background... fun bikes!



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ingle51
Posted 2011-04-12 4:54 PM (#83861 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: RE: Post pictures of your first rides


Cruiser

Posts: 123
NE Florida Jacksonville		My first ride was a Honda CT-90 in 1966, been riding ever since. But I love my Vision.



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Trekwolf164
Posted 2011-04-13 7:50 AM (#83900 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 965
New York State		http://www.mopedarmy.com/photos/brand/1/4020/

I had one of these it was a Yellow Motobecane from Europe with chrome and scroll work on the paint it had a 50 cc motor and none of the US restrictions the New ones my friends had. I burned it up on a slate patio working on new rings the motor was hinged and fliped out to the side for service I was pushing the jug on and tiped the bike over fuel had sprayed out of the chrome gas cap and ignited when the bike hit some stone or slate I was trying to catch the frame and heard a woosh the flash made me jump back I ran to the garage for a fire extingushier and put out the fire but the damage was bad melted most of the headlight area and the handlebar wires. I let my buddys use her for parts
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Webhair
Posted 2011-04-13 7:58 AM (#83903 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 669
Peachtree City, GA		Thanks guys - I feel younger now.
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Man314
Posted 2011-04-13 9:46 PM (#83975 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Tourer

Posts: 575
Spirit Lake IA "Birthplace of Victory Motorcycles"		1979 Honda XR75 . . . bought it in 6th grade with money I earned hoeing out weeds from bean fields . . . @ $1 / hour, I walked MILES to get this bike, but it was all mine!



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gr8punkin
Posted 2011-10-19 4:12 PM (#99408 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Cruiser

Posts: 161
Albuquerque NM		This is a pic I found on the internet, since I only have an old Polaroid of my first bike a red 1961 Cushman Super eagle. But dad and I pulled it from a junk yard when I was 13, so 89 after we restored it I rode it through the early years of my high school until I graduated to a 1947 HD flathead (which I still own)
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donetracey
Posted 2011-10-19 6:08 PM (#99421 - in reply to #99408)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Visionary

Posts: 2118
Pitt Meadows, BC Canada

Didn't get any pictures back then - too expensive, or we were too poor. But here is a picture of my 'first ride' in 1959 - a '55 Vincent Black Shadow that a pal of mine had just acquired. He was very proud, and stupidly asked this 15 year old if I wanted to "take it for a spin". Well, DUH ! So I did - and laid it down in the gravel field I was driving on. OOPS !

But it did lead to my biker mania - and 21 bikes of my own - 52 years ago.

 





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donetracey
Posted 2011-10-19 6:14 PM (#99423 - in reply to #99421)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Visionary

Posts: 2118
Pitt Meadows, BC Canada

Here's one from 1980 - my first Virago - brand new, and it reminded my of the 'ride on the Vincent' - only BETTER !

 





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MaddMAx2u
Posted 2011-10-19 7:04 PM (#99432 - in reply to #81403)
Subject: Re: Post pictures of your first rides


Iron Butt

Posts: 880
Orlando, FL		My Second ride, a brand new 1970 Yamaha 350. Man did she fly~ My first ride was a Yamaha 60cc. I was 14 and it had a top speed of 45mph! (That's me with my Dad)

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